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After the second season, the TV series "Dark Angel" was suddenly canceled
without being actually finished. Many important storylines have not been
concluded in time. In the end, almost all transgenics are captured
in the urban district "Terminal City" which is under siege by a superiority
of military and police. Apparently, there is no escape from this situation.
Moreover, it is not revealed, why Max is so inimitably interesting for
"Manticore" and so dangerous for the "breeding cult".
However, three official books have been released, that should answer
all open questions. While the prequel "Before The Dawn" illuminates the
events that happened before the TV series, the two sequels "Skin Game"
and "After The Dark" seamlessly follow on from the end of the second season.
Both books are claimed to be based on the story of the unshot third season
planed before cancelation of the series. All three volumes are written
by Max Allan Collins who became famous after the film adaptation of his
book "Road to Perdition".
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Dark Angel - Before The Dawn (Volume 1)
by Max A. Collins
Language: English
Paperback: 288 pages
Verlag: Del Rey Books (October 2002)
ISBN: 0345451821
Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early
days of Dark Angel!
Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale
ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving
among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief,
Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader
of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing
"brothers and sisters" from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister
history of militaristic manipulation and control.
By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist
in Seattle, known to everyone as "Eyes Only". The police are searching
for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max
immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts
her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate
web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further
fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past - and seize hope for
the future...
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Dark Angel - Skin Game (Volume 2)
by Max A. Collins
Language: English
Paperback: 272 pages
Verlag: Del Rey Books (February 2003)
ISBN: 034545183X
The saga of Dark Angel continues!
Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle.
The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely
cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have problems
of their own. In an area under siege by the oppressive arm of the police,
the transgenics must protect their fledgling colony against the outside
world - a world that eyes them with contempt and suspicion ... and will
do anything to be rid of them.
As the killings escalate, Joshua comes to Max with a dire suspicion:
the killer may be one of their own. Tensions are high between normal humans
and transgenics, and many inside the protected City would just as soon
let the humans fend for themselves. Yet Max and her inner circle know they
must investigate the crimes and stop the bloodshed. Doing nothing would
simply give the normals more reasons to hate. But what they discover will
shock even the most jaded among them - and expose a sinister agenda that
leads to an old, nefarious foe...
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Dark Angel - After The Dark (Volume 3)
by Max A. Collins
Language: English
Paperback: 272 pages
Verlag: Del Rey Books (June 2003)
ISBN: 0345451848
Secrets and betrayals, as the saga of Dark Angel continues!
In a chaotic world where the lines between good and evil often blur,
and violent anarchy and brutal repression become commonplace, secrets can
be deadly. So when Max discovers a shattering truth that Logan has kept
concealed from her for years, the betrayal threatens the very essence of
their trust.
Yet when Logan is kidnapped, all questions of truth and loyalty are
cast aside. Max's search will lead her to a familiar, menacing enemy -
and back into the shadow of the Snake Cult, which waits for her with chilling
anticipation.
But the search will also lead her into wholly unexpected territory.
Locked in the fight of her life, Max will discover a captive of the cult
who can provide her with the one thing that has haunted her ever since
she escaped from Manticore...
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Furthermore, following books related to "Dark Angel" have been published:
The "Eyes Only Dossier" contains four fictional cases that "Eyes Only"
was working on during and before the events of the TV series.
A special issue of the German magazine "Space View" takes a deeper
look at the series and its leading actress, Jessica Alba (with many large-size
photos).
And finally, the "Geheime Tagebuch" (secret diary) has been published
in Germany. It was apparently intended as a real diary and, thus, predominantly
contains empty pages and only few information (virtually a deceptive package).
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Dark Angel - The Eyes Only Dossier
by D. A. Stern
Language: English
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Del Rey Books (February 2003)
ISBN: 0345451856
Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 1.4 cm
Seattle ca. A.D. 2020 A post-Pulse city crawling with cops on the take,
crooks on the make, genetically engineered supersoldiers, and hundreds
of thousands of plain folks just hanging on by a thread to the sputtering
engine that was once the all-powerful American economy...
November 12, 2021: My name is Logan Cale - though whoever finds this
material will undoubtedly know me better as Eyes Only. In the years after
the Pulse struck, greed, corruption, and cruelty exploded on a scale I
never before imagined possible. Something had to be done.
I began working as an investigative journalist to expose the truth,
but the truth brought a lot of enemies out of the woodwork. So I went undercover,
and EYES ONLY was born. For years, with the help of a lot of good people,
we've uncovered many wrongs and made them right. No matter what the dangers,
this work needs to survive, and continue... especially some of the more
explosive facts still need to be revealed. Facts concerning the Grand Coulee
massacre, the secret government program known as The Phoenix Project, and
the Conclave's breeding program, to name but a few.
Putting these documents together in one place poses a big risk - not
just to the corrupt, but to the innocent as well. Yet the chance that these
truths might remain unspoken is an even bigger risk.
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Dark Angel - Die geheimnisvolle Jessica Alba (Space
View Powerfrauen)
by Christian Lukas
Language: German
Magazine: 48 pages
Publisher: Heel (July 2002)
ISBN: 3898801004
Dimensions: 28.4 x 21 x 0.7 cm
Die von James Cameron ("Titanic", "Terminator 2 und 3") erdachte Sci-Fi-
und Actionserie "Dark Angel" hat sich für den TV-Sender Vox als Glücksfall
herausgestellt. Seit dem sensationellen Start im Januar 2002 (auf RTL:
3,31 Millionen Zuschauer) schalten inzwischen 1,5 Millionen Zuschauer regelmäßig
ein, um mit zu verfolgen, wie die genmanipulierte Superfrau Max in einer
düsteren Zukunft für das Gute kämpft. Das neue Science-Fiction-Format
konnte sich in unglaublich kurzer Zeit etablieren und eine stetig wachsende
Fangemeinde aufbauen. Mit der Hauptprotagonistin Jessica Alba als geheimnisvolle
Schönheit Max wurde außerdem eine junge Darstellerin engagiert, die das
männliche und das weibliche Publikum gleichermaßen zu begeistern versteht
und innerhalb weniger Wochen zum Shooting-Star und neuen Sexsymbol aufstieg.
Erfolgsregisseur und Produzent James Cameron gelang es, spannende und gut
gemachte Fernsehunterhaltung zu kreieren, die vor allem bei dem konsumfreudigen
Publikum punktet. So wird Jessica Alba schon seit letztem Jahr für L'Oréal
Paris als Botschafterin eingesetzt. Denn sie ist nicht nur eine begabte
Schauspielerin, sondern auch noch Trendsetterin in Sachen Beauty. Gründe
genug, um neben "Buffy" (bislang über 35.000 verkaufte Exemplare unserer
Specials) als starke Serienheldin zu bestehen und in unserem neuen SPACE
VIEW-Special die innovative Serie und besonders ihre wunderschöne Hauptdarstellerin
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Dark Angel - Geheimes Tagebuch
Language: German
Publisher: Panini Books (September 2002)
ISBN: 3897486725
Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm
Das geheime Tagebuch von Max Guevara - Hier erfährst du ihre geheimsten
Gedanken! Lies alles über ihre Vergangenheit im Gen-Labor, ihre Mutter
und ihre Geschwister. Tauch ein in die Zukunft! Erlebe die Welt von Dark
Angel! Mit absoluten Insiderinfos über Max, ihre Gefühle, ihre Freunde
und ihren Gegner ... Exklusiv für dich: viele Tagebuchseiten für deine
kleinen und großen Geheimnisse!
Attention: The book description is quite
misleading. This book is predominantly intended as a personal diary and,
thus, it contains almost exclusively empty pages. There are only about
15 pages with sparely information that probably every fan already knows. |
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